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to be guilty of wearing an earpiece so that his
accomplices in his sound booth could feed him
personal information on people in his audience
while he was claiming to get personal messages
directly from God. This letter proves
that, not only is he back as a regular on TV, he
is also back to his old tricks.

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Practices in the ChurchesHow the occult has been
fully integrated into many Christian lives and
fellowshipsby Sandy Simpson

The Bible is quite clear about occult
practices.Neither
Israel
nor the Church is to have anything to do with the
way the world tries to gain secret knowledge.The Gnostics were
and are known for promoting new revelation that is
either loosely tied to Scripture taken out ofcontext or not at
all.The
Israelites seeking information from the dead or in
omens were judged harshly by the Lord who had warned
them numerous times to stay away from that stuff.

Yet due to the influences
of heretical teachers in the New Apostolic
Reformation, Word of Faith, Emergent Church, and the New Age
many have been successful in getting lots of
churches and denominations into occult practices
that have been thinly disguised as “Christian�?.Many of those who
follow these people, I’m sure, have no idea how
far they have strayed into the occult.

First I want to give the
dictionary definitions and then Biblical warnings
against these practices.Then I will give
examples in the churches taken mainly from the ElijahList e-newsletter.

List of Practices Detestable To
God

Deuteronomy 18:9-12
“When you enter the land which the Lord your God
gives you, you shall not learn to imitate the
detestable things of those nations. There shall
not be found among you anyone who makes his son or
his daughter pass through the fire, one who
uses divination, one who practices witchcraft,
or one who interprets omens, or a sorcerer, or
one who casts a spell, or a medium, or a spiritist, or one who
calls up the dead. For whoever does these
things is detestable to the Lord; and because of
these detestable things the Lord
your God will drive them out before you.

Isaiah 8:19When they say to you, “Consult the
mediums and the spiritists
who whisper and mutter,�? should not a
peopleconsult their God?Should
theyconsultthe dead on
behalf of the living?

Using
the
above list from Deuteronomy and Isaiah, let’s take
a look at each individual practice.

The title and cover art of this work
are a play off of the book by C. Peter Wagner
entitled “"Dominion! How Kingdom Action Can Change
The World". In contrast to this specious claim
we have titled this book “Dominionism! How
Unbiblical Action Can Change The Churches�?.
We think that is far more in keeping with what we
will present in this series of articles and essays
on the subject of Kingdom Now/Dominionism.

Indeed, many churches have already
been changed by accepting the false teachings that
constitute Dominionism. This started decades
ago under Reformed Reconstrucionism and Latter Rain
theology, but even before that in the Roman Catholic
Church (RCC). The attempt of Constantine to
protect Christians from being persecuted, since he
claimed he had become one of them, turned out to
begin a journey in syncretism and Dominion. It
wasn’t long before corrupt church officials began to
try to seize power all over Europe and beyond as the
“Holy Roman Empire�?. The Reformation itself
was a reaction to the lengths to which the RCC had
gone to take control over the Scriptures, the
nations, the kingdoms, and the people for financial
gain. They sold indulgences, promising those
who came up with enough money a much shorter time in
Purgatory. Those same ploys are being used
today on what has been loosely called “Christian
television�? by the sale of trinkets and promises of
healing, financial gain and even salvation.

These ideas all coalesce in
Dominionism. If it were true that the Church
needs to take over the planet, then we would be
seeing the unstoppable plans of God’s physical
Kingdom unfolding. But we do not. All we
see are failed prophecies, empty edicts and
declarations coming from false apostles and false
prophets. They love to fool Christians with
talk of the “kingdom�? when it is clear they are
talking about a different “kingdom�?; a Kingdom Now
not a Kingdom come. Jesus taught us to pray:
“Thy Kingdom come, Thy will be done on earth as it
is in heaven�?. The implication is that we are
to be about building His spiritual Kingdom while
praying for and expecting His physical Kingdom to
come. The only way we can do that is to
continue in the Great Commission till He comes, not
attempt to rule where God has not given the Church
the authority to rule. Jesus will do that when
He returns. If we go off on the tangent the
Dominionists want us to go, we will not only miss
out on the blessings of His Kingdom to come, but may
well be deserving of judgment.

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Matt. 13:38-39 The field is
the world, and the good seed stands for the sons of
the kingdom. The weeds are the sons of the evil
one, and the enemy who sows them is the devil.
The harvest is the end of the age, and the
harvesters are angels.Matthew 7:17 Likewise every
good tree bears good fruit, but a bad tree bears
bad fruit.

Original sin is the bad seed in
everyone. We all start with a bad seed.

Jer. 17:9 The heart is
deceitful above all things and beyond cure. Who
can understand it?Rom. 3:23 for all have
sinned and fall short of the glory of God,Rom. 5:12 Therefore, just as
sin entered the world through one man, and death
through sin, and in this way death came to all
men, because all sinned

We need to have the bad seed destroyed
and replaced with good seed.

Gal. 5:24 Those who belong to
Christ Jesus have crucified the sinful nature
with its passions and desires.Rom. 6:6 For we know that our
old self was crucified with him so that the body
of sin might be done away with, that we should
no longer be slaves to sin1 Pet. 1:23 For you have been
born again, not of perishable seed, but of
imperishable, through the living and enduring
word of God.

The good seed is the Word, the Gospel.

Luke 8:11 "This is the meaning
of the parable: The seed is the word of God.1 John 3:9 No one who is born
of God will continue to sin, because God's seed
remains in him; he cannot go on sinning,
because he has been born of God.

Bad seeds are from the enemy and are
full of false doctrine and a false gospel.

Matt. 13:38-39 The field is
the world, and the good seed stands for the sons of
the kingdom. The weeds are the sons of the evil
one, and the enemy who sows them is the devil. The
harvest is the end of the age, and the harvesters
are angels.

Will the Real Blasphemers
Please Stand Up?by Sandy SimpsonThis DVD is a message based on this
article.

This subject is one so serious that I
do it with great fear and trepidation. Nonetheless,
because I get so many e-mails accusing me and other
Bereans of blasphemy, among other serious charges, I
felt it was necessary to clear up some issues on
this topic. Because of my stand for the truth of
God's Word juxtaposed against all the false teaching
that is going on today, I think it is important to
do a quick study on what blasphemy is actually all
about from a biblical standpoint. There are
many references to blasphemy in the Bible and from
them we can find out how and why that term was used.

You will see that the word
"blasphemy" in the Scriptures is the very definition
of what the false teachers and false prophets are
doing today!

This is a name I came up with for
people attending and teaching at Oral Roberts
University in the 70s. Even back then I had
come to realize that their way of representing
Christianity was not in line with the
Scriptures. At that time I didn’t know that
Oral Roberts was carrying on the Word of Faith
traditions of New Thought practitioners such as
Kenneth Hagin, Kenneth Copeland, Essex Kenyan,
Norman Vincent Peale, Robert Schuler, and many other
false teachers of the time. Though I didn’t
know anything about Word of Faith or New Thought
then I knew that the way they were representing
Christianity was just not right somehow. Their
desire to portray Christians as rich, beautiful,
healthy, perfect, and virtually sinless (holiness)
went directly against the example of Jesus, the
Apostles and the early church.

Studies in Worldview MP3 DVDclick below to order for $25. plus s/hScrewtape Legacyby Sandy SimpsonThis DVD is a message based on this article.

The book by C.S. Lewis called
"Screwtape Letters" was a clever idea in exposing a
number of tactics of the enemy. Those
principles are still at work today in many
churches. Following is a list of some of the
things the enemy wants to see in churches and
Christians in order to bring them down.

Bradford Pear Christianityby Sandy SimpsonThis DVD is a message based on this
article.

I was driving along and noticing that
spring has sprung here in North Carolina. One of the
first trees to bloom is the Bradford Pear. I began
to notice how that tree has proliferated almost
everywhere and then my wife looked up the
information on this tree on the web. As she began to
read the facts about this tree and its proliferation
I began to see an allegorical parallel to what is
going on in much of Christendom. But before I get
into what the Bradford Pear can show us about the
churches, I need to present the facts about the
tree.

The Lord's Prayer, Our
Prayerby Sandy SimpsonThis DVD is a message based on this article.

Matt. 6:9-13 This, then, is how
you should pray: "Our Father in heaven, hallowed
be your name, your kingdom come, your will be
done on earth as it is in heaven. Give us today
our daily bread. Forgive us our debts, as we
also have forgiven our debtors. And lead us not
into temptation, but deliver us from the evil
one."

This model
prayer that Jesus taught the disciples to pray
contains many important precepts. It should
probably be called "The Disciple's Prayer". It
starts with a very important concept in the first
verse.

The Fallacious Arguments of
Neo-Universalistsby Sandy SimpsonThis DVD is a message based on this article.

The new Universalists are not as
vocal about their Universalism ideas but are far
more deadly to the Church as they are not rejected
like classic Universalists were decades ago.
The new Universalists would include Emerging
Church leaders like Brian McLaren, Leonard Sweet,
Spencer Burke, Alan Jones and others like
Wycliffe, Society of Biblical Literature,
World Christian Gathering of Indigenous Peoples,
Richard Twiss, Daniel Kikawa, Terry LeBlanc, Rick
Warren, Henry Nowen, YWAM, Tony Campolo, Robert
Schuller, George Otis Jr., and even Billy Graham.

The future of apologetics
and discernment ministriesby Sandy SimpsonThis DVD is a message based on this article.

I admit that I
am very skeptical about the future of discernment
and apologetics ministries. I don't see the next
generation coming up to replace those who have stood
for the truth for so long. Fortunately many
apologists have gone to be with the Lord but who
will replace them? I don't see replacements coming
up who will take the place of those who have been
fighting the fight the years. I run a web site where
I collect articles and materials from all over the
world and present them in a sort of Reader's Digest
format so that people can come to one place to get
the latest information on heresies in the churches
as well as research past ones. What I've seen in the
last couple of years is that the production of
regular materials is declining to the point where
it's becoming difficult to find one article for my
site to post every day. Of course I write my own
articles but don't have enough time to write an
article on a daily basis. I am very concerned
because of the tsunami of false ideas from the enemy
in the churches. At the same time, unfortunately, I
see a lot of younger people who don't even recognize
anymore that something is wrong.

Church History & The
Core Doctrinesby Sandy SimpsonThis 4-DVD set is a combination of a
condensed study on Church History and the Discernment
Toolkit series which deals with the core doctrines of
the Church and how to use them to discern error.
The Church History DVD takes a different approach to
Church History in that it does not celebrate the
Catholic Church but rather exposes it as false
Christianity. It covers World religions, false
Christianity and finally a study of the true remnant
Church through history following the story of the many
martyrs who stood up for true Biblical faith.

The "Weight of Glory"by Sandy SimpsonThis DVD is a message based on this
article.

2 Corinthians 4:17 For our light
affliction, which is but for a moment, worketh for
us a far more exceeding and eternal weight of
glory; (KJV)

This is both an incredible source
of hope for Christians who are downtrodden, and a
source of escalating heresy in many churches.It is
critical that we understand what Paul was talking
about when he wrote the phrase “weight of
glory�?.Jacob Prasch has repeated this phrase in
his teachings over the years … “A text, out of
context, in isolation from co-text is always a
pre-text."A huge problem today is that individuals
and movements tend to yank verses out of their
context and build a cult of heresy around
them.This is called eisegesis or plugging your own
ideas into the Scriptures instead of exegesis,
gaining understanding and interpretation of the
Bible by studying it in context and in the scope
of the whole written Word.

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Their Hearts"or "The World In Their
Hearts"?by Sandy SimpsonThis DVD is a message based on this article.

In the introduction to Mike
Oppenheimer's and my book "Idolatry In Thier
Hearts" I exposed the fact that Don Richardson
pulled the phrase "Eternity In Thier Hearts" to
use as his book title from it's context in Ecc.
3:11. He did this to support his thesis,
which actually contradicts the second part of that
verse, where it states that man cannot fathom what
God has done. Richardson, rather, sets forth what
has become the foundation for the false teachings
of the WCGIP, YWAM, a number of Bible translation
societies and the Emerging Church ... the
propostion that men from Gentile cultures have
always been seeking God and that Gentile cultures
were already worshipping the true God before
missionaries came with the Gospel.

But as I further investigated this
verse I found that Richardson even ignored the
true meaning of the FIRST half of the verse in
favor of a few translations that use the phrase
"eternity in their hearts".

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away�? by Sandy SimpsonThis DVD is a message based on this article.

Jeremiah 3:10-11 And yet for
all this her treacherous sister Judah hath not
turned unto me with her whole heart, but feignedly,
saith the LORD. And the LORD said unto me, “The
backsliding Israel hath justified herself more than
treacherous Judah.�? (KJV) Israel had turned away
from the Lord and had gone after the gods of Canaan,
namely Baal and Asherah. Because
Israel had prostituted herself with false gods in
worshipping the polytheistic gods that started at
Babel, God had declared He was divorcing Israel and
would send them into exile until they again returned
to the true God. But Judah prided itself in doing
what God had commended as they had Jerusalem and the
Temple. They disdained Israel for setting up
altars to Baal and Asherah poles on high
hills. Yet God was not fooled by Judah’s
pretence. In the KJV it says they were not
worshipping God with their whole heart but
“feignedly�?.

Prophets for profitby Sandy SimpsonThis DVD is a message based on this article.

2 Cor. 2:17 Unlike so many, we do
not peddle the word of God for profit. On the
contrary, in Christ we speak before God with
sincerity, as those sent from God.

There are many false teachers on TV
these days who peddle the word of God for
profit. They make promises of healing that do
not come true by claiming if they are given a
financial gift the person will receive healing and
riches. When what they promised does not
happen the person is blamed that they did not have
enough faith. This often destroys the faith of
people who fall into the traps of these snake oil
salesmen. I have no problem with people
charging for their materials if they cost to be
produced, even though it is hoped that when a person
cannot afford to pay for books and DVDs they will
receive them free of charge. But the charges
levied on people for conferences and speaking
engagements is often excessive. A minister of
God can ask for support and deserves it if they are
being diligent in their study and proclamation of
the Word. But experiences and feelings often
come with a price today and that is not right.

"Mistake" or "Sin"?by Sandy SimpsonThis DVD is a message based on this article.

Today we often hear the word
"mistake" coming from pulpits, and especially in
defense of false teaching and false
prophesy. "Cut him some slack! He just
made some mistakes". "We all make mistakes,
so don't judge lest you be judged." We even
hear the word "mistakes" being substituted for the
word "sin" in many presentations of what I have
termed "Gospel Lite" today. So is it proper to
substitute the word "mistake" for the word
"sin"? We'll look at the problem of one word
"mistakenly" being used for the other.

Holy Ghost IGNORED!by Sandy SimpsonThis 3-DVD set is a message based on this movie review.

"Holy Ghost Reborn" is the second
film in the "Holy Ghost" series released by Bethel
Church in Redding, CA. Tim Wirth and I
reviewed the first "Holy Ghost" film and that
review is freely available on YouTube here:

I am sorry to say this but Bethel
is clearly a cult of Christianity holding to most
of the teachings of the Latter Rain and Word of
Faith. They have demonstrated repeatedly a
manipulative atmosphere targeting young people in
particular while preaching rank heresy. This
new film is a continuation of those false
teachings and practices. I pray for the
young people in that church that they will come to
know Jesus Christ as their Savior and thus come to
know the true Holy Spirit.

Servant Authorityby Sandy
SimpsonThis DVD is a message based on this article.

The world system has always been a
"top down" structure, starting at the apex of the
pyramid and going down to the bottom. In kingdoms we
have the king at the top, then the princes, common
people, slaves. In a democracy we have the President
at the top, the VP, the Sec. of State on down to the
citizens. In business we have the CEO at the top,
upper management, lower management, office workers
and the janitors. Unfortunately, sometime in
the third century, the church started to have a top
down structure. This is also when the church began
to be in error. The church of Rome began to have a
"top down" structure that started with the pope,
then cardinals, then bishops, then priests, then the
people. Well, what about that? Eph 4:11
It was he who gave some to be apostles, some to be
prophets, some to be evangelists, and some to be
pastors and teachers, This all sounds like a
"top down" structure. But the problem is that people
have not seen an important fact about these gifts of
the Spirit -- man looks at function and title, God
looks at aim and goal! Read on. Eph.
4:12 to prepare God's people for works of
service, so that the body of Christ may be built up.
These are not gifts given for title or to give
people job descriptions. They are given because
there are people out there who need our help! The
church needed the Apostles. They were the ones who
were the foundation of the church. They were the
ones who saw Jesus in the flesh and were taught by
Him personally. They wrote the New Testament
Scriptures. Though the gifts of apostle and prophet
are different today than in biblical times, the gift
of evangelism, pastoring, teaching and others are
still the same. A person who is an evangelist does
not just have a title so he can rule over people.
The reason that he has the gift to be an evangelist
is so that he can tell others the good news. Why do
we have pastors? Are they supposed to rule the
church and get everyone to support them and bow to
their demands? No. They are to serve the church by
helping people to come to a fuller knowledge of
Jesus Christ, to equip the saints to become more
like Jesus every day.

The true structure of Christianity is
symbolized as an inverted pyramid!

�Overtake you like a thief�by Sandy
SimpsonThis DVD is a message based on this article.

1 Thessalonians 5:4 But you,
brethren, are not in darkness, that the day would
overtake you like a thief; How serious will it be
for a person to be overtaken in �that day� like a
thief overtakes a household when he slips in and
steals? Will it just be a surprise for those
who claim to be Christians who will get a slap on
the wrist by the Lord but still proceed to
heaven? Will they simply lose rewards but
still gain the ultimate reward? What is this
darkness that the brethren are not in? 1
Thessalonians 5:3-5 While they are saying,
�Peace and safety!� then destruction will come
upon them suddenly like labor pains upon a
woman with child, and they will not escape.
But you, brethren, are not in darkness, that the
day would overtake you like a thief; for you
are all sons of light and sons of day. We
are not of night or of darkness;

Generic and Specificby Sandy SimpsonThis DVD is a message based on this article.

In my article �Blasphemizing
the
Bible� I give a number of examples of how a
lot of modern Bible translation societies are
putting the names of �supreme beings� in the Bible
in the place of God or YHWH. In this article I'm
going to examine two of the excuses they make for
making those substitutions in the Bible in many
hundreds of different languages today.

(1) They claim that God has many
different names and therefore they think they are
justified in putting the names of various gods of
various cultures in Bibles, as long as they are
considered �supreme beings�.

(2) The second excuse they give is
that the names of the �gods� they are placing in the
Bible are generic terms for God, like the words
�God�, �Theos�, �Dios� and �Elohim�. By generic I
mean a word that can be used for any deity whether
of the one true God or other false gods who claim to
be God.

I will go through both of these
excuses and show that they are both unbiblical,
therefore the Bibles they have translated with names
of other gods in them, or names they claim are
generic, prove that they have �blasphemized� those
Bibles.

The Ugly
Side of Diapraxby Sandy SimpsonThis DVD is a message based on this article.

There has been a concerted effort by
the false teachers from many movements inside the
church such as Word of Faith, New Apostolic
Reformation (NAR)/Latter Rain, World Gathering on
Indigenous People and Emerging Church among others
to diaprax people into thinking that the church has
been ineffective until they came along with their
new and improved ideas on how to take over the
world. This is always a feature of the
Hegelian Dialectical process put into action by
praxis, thus diaprax. In order to form a new
paradigm or worldview the leadership of these
movements must vilify orthodox Biblical
Christianity.

Healer?Heal Thyself!by Sandy SimpsonThis DVD is a message based on this article.

A good subtitle for this article
might be "Practice What You Preach!" There is
no doubt that God can and does heal people
today. But the false doctrines of the
Word-Faith Movement about "declaring" healing,
"name-it-and-claim-it", etc. have been proven to be
lies by the very people who sell this deceit.
If you don't know about where these famous "faith
healers" go when they need healing, you may be
surprised. Why couldn't they heal themselves
when they purported to be able to heal others by
virtue of their superior faith? What happened
to the extraordinary faith they claimed to have,
enough faith to heal and be healed? Since they
are the ones who taught that all you have to do is
claim the healing that is in the Atonement (Is.
53:5) why did they not do so? Don't their
deaths prove that what they were preaching was a lie
and pragmatic witchcraft rather than biblical
relality?

God�s Attitude toward the
�Supreme Beings� of the Nationsby Sandy SimpsonThis DVD is a message based on this
article.

It is quite clear from Scripture that
YHWH does NOT consider the �supreme beings� of the
nations to be Himself, the One True God. This
is in opposition to the teachings of Don Richardson,
Daniel Kikawa, Richard Twiss and many others
promoting the World Christian Gathering of
Indigenous People movement, Emergent Church and
Liberal theologies. I have proven this time
and time again in my articles on the subject but I
am going to consolidate the information from the
Bible in this article by studying the false gods
named in the Bible. I am sure I will not be
able to cover every instance of supreme beings
mentioned in the Bible but I (1) want to deal with
some of the major ones (2) show you where they are
found in the Word, and (3) prove that they were the
�supreme beings� of those nations named by the
patriarchs, prophets and Apostles and that they were
not monotheistic gods but polytheistic in the
tradition of Babel where the false religion of
polytheism first took root through the worship of
Nimrod and Semiramis.

You need to "nip it in the
bud"!by Sandy SimpsonThis DVD is a message based on this article.

I am writing this article to
address a subject that I have often
observed. It is the fact that if you do not
get the leaven out of your church the leaven will
become the leadership.The Bible teaches quite
clearly that if you let the leaven in you will
leaven the whole lump.

Galatians 5:9 A little
leaven leavens the whole lump of dough.

We see this often in the
case of many �Christian� movements that have
allowed a small error to exist in their churches
and have not dealt with those issues. It
then ends up metastasizing into worse and worse
problems as time goes by.

The New Panentheistic "God"
Of Christendomby Sandy SimpsonThis DVD is a message based on this article.

Now, I bet you read the title of this
article and thought I had misspelled the word
"pantheism". Just so that those of you who
write to me advising me of words I have misspelled
in articles (and I do often) I want to tell you that
I am using the term "panentheism" as coined by Karl
C. F. Krause. You can read more about this
word and concept in an excellent book called "A Time Of
Departing" by Ray Yungen.

There is a new "God" being promoted
in the Third Wave, New Apostolic Reformation (NAR)
and Word of Faith movements whose teachers are
regularly seen on TBN, Daystar, SkyAngel, CBN and
other "Christian" TV networks. Some of those
teachers even have, what would be considered, a
fairly typical statement of faith or doctrinal
statement they endorse. But by what they teach
they end up promoting a false unbiblical view of
God, especially through their actions and
experiences. The whole phenomenon of "slain in
the spirit" and all the antics that go with it are
brainwashing an entire generation of Christians to
put their faith in another Jesus, another Spirit,
another Gospel. This new "Jesus" and "Holy
Spirit" is clearly pantheistic or panentheistic in
nature. Though some of these teachers would
claim to be believing in the God who is One God in
Three Persons, by what they teach they deny the very
revealed character of God from Scripture.

What Should I Say?by Sandy SimpsonThis DVD is a message based on this booklet.

How do you answer an invitation to
attend a meeting where you know nothing about the
speaker or what will be done there? What happens if
they want to announce the meeting at your church and
invite everyone? What do you say to a person who
tells you that you don�t have the Holy Spirit even
though you are a Christian? What should you do if
you think something is wrong, or your conscience is
bothering you about something that was said or
done? The answer?

Go to the Scriptures!

The Bible has all the answers to your
questions. This little booklet is an attempt to deal
with a few of the typical statements you will hear
from people who have become involved in the Third
Wave revival movement. By �Third Wave� I am
referring to teachers, �prophets� and any meeting
associated with the Toronto �Blessing�, Brownsville
Assemblies of God, Rodney Howard-Browne, Benny Hinn,
Kenneth Copeland, Rod Parsley, Marilyn Hickey, Joyce
Meyers, Bethel Church, Lakeland and many others who
appear on the Trinity Broadcasting Network and the
700 Club on TV.

Hopefully the statements and answers
in this booklet will set you off on an investigation
of your own in the Word. If you need help, and you
have access to the Internet, you can visit my web
site called �Deception In The Church� that deals
with these issues and has the articles mentioned in
this booklet.

Luring People To DestructionBy The Unscrupulous Use Of
The "Gospel" Messageby Sandy SimpsonThis DVD is a message based on this article.

Phil.
1:14-18 Because of my chains, most of
the brothers in the Lord have been encouraged to
speak the word of God more courageously and
fearlessly. It is true that some preach Christ
out of envy and rivalry, but others out of
goodwill. The latter do so in love, knowing
that I am put here for the defense of the gospel.
The former preach Christ out of selfish ambition,
not sincerely, supposing that they can stir up
trouble for me while I am in chains. But what does
it matter? The important thing is that in every way,
whether from false motives or true, Christ is
preached. And because of this I rejoice. Yes, and I
will continue to rejoice,

If you see what I see in this
passage, this argument cannot be used for people
like Benny Hinn, Kenneth Copeland and the hundreds,
even thousands of Third Wave ministers today who are
not merely envious and self ambitious, but are also
teaching outright false doctrine. Paul was not
talking about heretics in this statement, but
"brothers in the Lord" who preach the Gospel with
wrong motives. Third Wave teachers not only have
wrong motives, they also have the wrong
message. This argument cannot be used for
people like Hinn, even if they manage to preach
enough of the "Gospel" for people to come to a
saving knowledge of the Lord, because they are also
teaching and practicing heresy.

Attack Of The Enemy On The Churchesby Sandy SimpsonThis DVD is a message based on this
article.

So much heresy is entering the
churches these days. As you would suspect,
sometimes it is due to a pastor attending a
conference or reading a book and becoming diapraxed
with unbiblical ideas. He then starts to weave
those ideas into his messages and begins to invite
speakers to the church who expound on those
ideas. Then when confronted by someone in the
church who has reservations about the new stuff
being taught, they are told to not talk about it and
just go along with the program. If that person
does not they are ostracized, slander behind their
back, and often told to leave (which is what they
should do in any case).

But my observation is that it is not
only the pastor who causes unbiblical changes to
influence a church. Often the pastor is
blissfully unaware of influences coming into his
church. They often come in through (1) the
worship team (2) women�s groups (3) bookstore (4)
children�s programs (5) interdenominational prayer
efforts and (6) relief and mission
organizations. If unchecked this type of
infiltration is much more subtle and can become
deeply rooted.

Marks Of False Religionby Sandy SimpsonThis DVD is a message based on this article.

Colossians 2:8 See to it that no one
takes you captive through philosophy and empty
deception, according to the tradition of men,
according to the elementary principles of the world,
rather than according to Christ.

In context Paul is especially
addressing, though perhaps not to the exclusion of
other false religion, what had become the false
religion of the Pharisees and Jewish
leadership. There were many Jewish so-called
�Christians� making the rounds among the fledgling
early churches who were trying to get the Gentiles
to come under the Law from which Christ had
purchased their freedom. John Gill states this
case well in his commentary.

Universalism in the
World has Permeated the Churchby Sandy SimpsonThis DVD is a message based on this article.

The current fad of interfaith
solidarity and unity is simply a thin guise of
inclusivism, Universalism and pluralism.

Universalism is defined by
Dictionary.com as: The doctrine that emphasizes
the universal fatherhood of God and the final
salvation of all souls. (Source)
Universalism is a religion and theology that
generally holds all persons and creatures are
related to God or the divine and will be
reconciled to God. (Source)

Pluralism is defined as: The
doctrine that reality is composed of many ultimate
substances. � The belief that no single
explanatory system or view of reality can account
for all the phenomena of life. (American Heritage
Dictionary, (Source)

Inclusivism is: "Inclusivism
posits that even though the work of Christ is the
only means of salvation, it does not follow that
explicit knowledge of Christ is necessary in order
for one to be saved. In contrast to pluralism,
inclusivism agrees with exclusivism in affirming
the particularity of salvation in Jesus Christ.
But unlike exclusivism, inclusivism holds that an
implicit faith response to general revelation can
be salvific. God expects from man a response
proportional to the light given. Saving faith is
not characterized so much by its cognitive content
as it is by its reverent quality." (Ken Keathley,
None Dare Call It Treason: Is an Inclusivist
a Paul Revere or a Benedict Arnold? (Ken Keathley,
Assistant Professor of Theology and Philosophy New
Orleans Baptist Theological Seminary, (Source)

We deal with these old heresies
brought forward to modernity, these ideas that all
men have have a relationship with God that will
cause them to be able to avoid judgement in our
book on the teachings of the World Gathering on
Indigenous People movement called �Idolatry In Their
Hearts�. The idea that all men who
worship a �god� are worshipping the true God,
YHWH, has bubbled up to the very top of our
societies and religions, and even Christendoom,
and should sound a warning alarm to true Biblical
Christianity. Instead, as usual in our day,
most Christians are asleep at the wheel while
Universalists claim that you can pray to a �god�
like Allah and be praying to the true Trinue God,
YHWH. I also dealt with the fact that Allah is not
YHWH, both in our book and in the article �Is Allah The Same As YHWH?�.

What We Need Is A Reverse
Paradigm Shift!by Sandy SimpsonThis DVD is a message based on this article.

I'm going to warn you now. I am
going to let you in on some information tonight that
is going to radically change your world view.
You are likely going to experience the beginnings of
a reverse paradigm shift and after tonight there
will be no way to go back the way you came.
You will be faced with choices that you may never
have known you had. You will be faced with a
new way of looking at things that is going to cause
you to rethink everything that is being taught in
the Emerging Latter Rain churches. It is going
to be radical because the basis for this message
doesn't come from Jesus Christ visiting my room last
night bodily, but from His holy written Word.
So buckle down your seat belts, you're likely in for
a bumpy ride!

Matt. 7:15-23
"Watch out for false prophets. They come to you in
sheep�s clothing, but inwardly they are ferocious
wolves. By their fruit you will recognize them. Do
people pick grapes from thornbushes, or figs from
thistles? Likewise every good tree bears good
fruit, but a bad tree bears bad fruit. A good tree
cannot bear bad fruit, and a bad tree cannot bear
good fruit. Every tree that does not bear good
fruit is cut down and thrown into the fire. Thus,
by their fruit you will recognize them. "Not
everyone who says to me, �Lord, Lord,� will enter
the kingdom of heaven, but only he who does the
will of my Father who is in heaven. Many will say
to me on that day, �Lord, Lord, did we not
prophesy in your name, and in your name drive out
demons and perform many miracles?� Then I will
tell them plainly, �I never knew you. Away from
me, you evildoers!�

False Teachers Revisitedby Sandy SimpsonThis DVD is a message based on this article.

I often receive requests to present
updated false teachings and false prophecies by the
myriad of heretics out there. We do try to
keep up with all the latest. But I have to
remind people that those we have exposed as false on
our site have not repented of what they have already
done in the past, which is why they are still on our
site. So what they are doing now has no
relevance as to whether or not they are now to be
considered a true Biblical teacher. If and
when they repent, that is renounce their false
teachings and false prophecies, make restitution to
those they have deceived, and begin to teach sound
Biblical doctrine we will give you that
information. As of now NONE of the people we
have exposed have repented of their Latter Rain,
Word of Faith teachings, heretical practices or
their false prophecies. But in the interest of
helping you to respond to a person who inquires by
saying: "Those articles are old and you need newer
materials" well, here is some newer stuff you can
add to the pile. For you and me this really
makes no difference, but for those who are living in
deception perhaps it might demolish one of their
arguments against the truth.

Testing The Spirits by Sandy SimpsonThis DVD is a message based on this
article.

Sometimes I really wonder why someone
who claims to be a Bible believing pastor, for
instance, refuses to listen to the truth. It
frankly boggles my mind. I don't know if it is
as a result of the postmodern paradigm or just that
they have no love of the truth left. I don't
know how that can happen in a truly regenerate
person. You would think that the Holy Spirit
would confirm the truth to them, first in their
conscience, and finally through the written
Word. But these days it is a miracle if it
gets that far. I don't know if their
conscience has been so seared that they don't hear
the Spirit or if they just don't want to know the
truth because then they would be responsible for
it. I know that I cannot know their motives or
the reasons why they reject truth and refuse to talk
about false teaching, but I do know one thing: we
are called as true believers to test the
spirits. We must do this even if the result is
not to our liking or befuddles us as to the reasons.

1 John 4:1 Dear
friends, do not believe every spirit, but test the
spirits to see whether they are from God, because
many false prophets have gone out into the world.

Questions for Those Who
Claim the "Supreme Beings"Of the Nations Are the True
Godby Sandy SimpsonThis DVD is a message based on this article.

I have some questions for those of
the World Christian Gathering of Indigenous People
(WCGIP) adherents such as Don Richardson, Daniel
Kikawa, Richard Twiss (deceased), Terry LeBlanc,
Danny Lehman, Aloha Ke Akua, YWAM as well as many in
the Emergent Church (EC) ... the questions arise
from their claim that the "supreme beings" of the
nations are all the True God, YHWH, the God of
Abraham, Isaac and Jacob. You can read more on
this subject in our book "Idolatry
In
Their Hearts" or in the WCGIP
section of my site. My main question for them is
this: When did ANY of the Patriarchs and Prophets in
the Old Testament and the Apostles or Jesus Christ
in the New Testament EVER claim that the "supreme
beings" of the nations were Elohim/YHWH, the one
True God? Let's look at some examples in the
form of questions and you can check out the source
links as well.

How To Discern, Test &
Judge Rightlyby Sandy SimpsonThis DVD is a message based on this article.

In
running a web site with thousands of articles, 1-2
million hits per month from all over the world,
and hundreds of e-mails per week, I have come to
realize, with time, that there is a terrible
problem in Christendom today. The problem stems
from an existential subjective view of the world
that has filtered into the church from secular
society, but also from the teachings of heretical
wolves who have taught an entire generation of
churchgoers completely unbiblical methods of
discernment or to get rid of any discernment
altogether.

We need a firm foundation to
weather the storm of false ideasby Sandy SimpsonThis DVD is a message based on this article.

Matthew 22:29 Jesus answered and
said unto them, Ye do err, not knowing the
scriptures, nor the power of God. (KJV)Matthew 7:24 "Therefore everyone
who hears these words of Mine and acts on them,
may be compared to a wise man who built his house
on the rock.How firm a foundation, ye saints of
the Lord,Is laid for your faith in His
excellent word!� 1787 Joseph Funk & Robert
Keene

A house built on the rock will
stand. The Rock is God and in particular,
Jesus Christ. Therefore His written Word is
the teachings of the His Holy Spirit and a Rock we
can depend on. Anyone who wants to prove
anything theologically, historically, scientifically
or anything else needs to start with correct
information. If you start with a faulty
foundation, as you build your arguments, they begin
to fall apart because they are not supported in
God"s truth. If you want to build on a firm
foundation, you need to start the process by a
careful study of God"s Word in context of the verse
and according to the whole counsel of God"s
Word. The Bible is the best commentary on the
Bible.

Karma (by any other name)by Sandy SimpsonThis DVD is a message based on this article.

According to Wikipedia:

"Karma means action, work or deed;
it also refers to the principle of causality where
intent and actions of an individual influence the
future of that individual. Good intent and
good deed contribute to good karma and future
happiness, while bad intent and bad deed
contribute to bad karma and future
suffering. Karma is closely associated with
the idea of rebirth in some schools of Asian
religions. In these schools, karma in the
present affects one's future in the current life,
as well as the nature and quality of future lives
- or, one's samsara. With origins in ancient
India, it is a key concept in Hinduism, Buddhism,
Jainism, Sikhism, Taoism, Shintoism, Ching Hai and
others."(emphasis mine)

Mirram-Webster defines it this way:

the force created by a person's
actions that is believed in Hinduism and Buddhism
to determine what that person's next life will be
like: the force created by a person's actions that
some people believe causes good or bad things to
happen to that person

His Name, The Only Nameby Sandy SimpsonThis DVD is a message based on this article.

Zechariah 14:9 NIV The LORD will
be king over the whole earth. On that day there
will be one LORD, and his name the only name.

The reason I wrote this
article based on Zech 14:9 is that I was reminded of
how many so-called Christians, who are influential
in the churches, are promoting the worship of God in
the names of other gods.

Replacement Theology On
Steroidsby Sandy SimpsonThis DVD is a message based on this
article.

So, as you can see, the root of
this teaching is that Israel no longer holds the
distinction of being the tree from which the Root
of David (Jesus-Rev. 5:5, 22:16) came. They
are no longer the "natural branches" (Israel-Rom.
11:21) on to which Gentile Christianity (the wild
shoots-Rom. 11:17 or wild branches-Rom. 11:24) are
grafted in (Rom. 11:17-24). According to
Replacement Theology, Christianity has now become
its own branch apart from Israel (the natural
branch) that produced the Root and all the
promises of the Bible to Israel have been taken
away from them and given to the Gentile
Church. This is why you hear so many false
teachers taking verses out of context from the Old
Testament and willy-nilly applying them to the
Gentile Church. This methodology has been
going on for decades in liberal churches and has
been popularized by many false teachers on TV. But
the fact is that Replacement Theology is utter
false doctrine. It denies promises made to
Israel, some of which have already been fulfilled
and some which are yet to come to fruition. But
when you add the fact that the Inclusivist WCGIP
proponents are now saying that God planted
hundreds of different trees, cultures all over the
world, that are not connected to the natural
branch, tree and Root, you have what can only be
termed Replacement Theology on steroids!

Those Who Do Not Lead
Christians to Maturityby Sandy SimpsonThis DVD is a message based on this
article.

The Scriptural definition of maturity
is to learn to discern truth from error so that the
Christian will no longer be double minded, blown
about by every wind of teaching and by the schemes
of crafty people. But the problem today is
that so few Christian teachers are feeding their
flock's solid food. They are serving up milk
and, because of that, people are starving. Yet they
often don't even know they have been on a starvation
diet. Amos 8:11 "The days are coming,"
declares the Sovereign Lord, "when I will send a
famine through the land - not a famine of
food or a thirst for water, but a famine of
hearing the words of the Lord."

"... and all liars"by Sandy SimpsonThis DVD is a message based on this article.

Lying is a problem for all people
(Ps. 116:11). We are all sinners (Rom.
3:23). Those of us who are Christians are
"sinners saved by grace" (Eph. 2:8) indwelt by the
Holy Spirit in our "new self" (Col. 3:10). But we
still live in our "old self" which we must "put off"
(Eph. 4:20-25) by taking up our cross daily and
following Christ (Luke 9:23). The difference
between unbelievers and those who are truly born
again is that believers no longer "practice sin" (1
John 3:9, see my Bible study on 1 John!) They
have the indwelling Holy Spirit (Rom. 8:11) who
convicts them when they lie (John 16:8). True
believers then repent (1 John 1:9) and go on to
"practice righteousness" (1 John 2:29) with the
Lord's help. The unregenerate, the false
brothers, or those who have fallen away (Gal. 5:4,
Mark 4:17), practice lying. They practice a
lifestyle of lying because their consciences are
seared (1 Tim. 4:2) and the Holy Spirit, when
convicting them, cannot break through the hardness
of their unrepentant hearts (Eph. 4:17-19, Heb.
3:13).

Four Books That the Enemy
Has Used To Corrupt Christianityby Sandy SimpsonThis DVD is a message based on this
article.

The four books that have changed the
church by giving an introduction to the false
teachings of the New Apostolic/Latter Rain (NAR),
the Emerging Church/Contemplative/Catholic Mysticism
(EC), pragmatic Church Growth (CG) methodologies of
C. Peter Wagner, Robert Schuller and Peter Drucker,
and the teachings of the World Christian Gathering
on Indigenous People (WCGIP) are as follows:

Surprised by the Power of the Spirit
by Jack Deer, Celebration of Discipline by Richard
Foster, Purpose Driven Church by Rick Warren &
Etnerity In Their Hearts by Don Richardson.

These four books were widely
read by Christians from virtually every
denominational background before their ramifications
and the movements they would spawn were known.
They lay error alongside truth so were considered
not to be a threat to churches. Therefore
these books then became part of the consciousness of
many Christians and churches, thereby laying the
basis for the introduction of the modern day false
teachings of the NAR, EC, CG and WCGIP that have
become part of the landscape of Christendom
today.

Night Marchers and UFOs on
the Big Island by Sandy SimpsonThis DVD is a message based on this article.

With the resurgence of the old
religion of Hawaii and the continual invocation of
Pel� and other "deities" for years in the secular
culture and even in churches with regards to
worshipping 'Io, is it any wonder that those
beings are beginning to manifest again? In a
story called "Night
Marchers" on the Kawaihae site and in a YouTube video on
the same subject, eyewitnesses claim all kinds of
sightings that they think are the warriors,
ancestors and demi-gods of Hawaii coming
back. Interestingly the
first
book the Hawaiian Heritage site recommends
in its "Suggested Reading" list is "Perpetuated
in
Righteousness" by Daniel Kikawa that we
reviewed in our book "Idolatry
In
Their Hearts" by Sandy Simpson and Mike
Oppenheimer. Since Kikawa claims that 'Io is the
True God and one that the Hawaiians worshipped in
secret, we have to wonder if Kikawa also thinks
'Io is showing up in these night marches? Since
YWAM, Aloha Ke Akua and Hilo New Hope participated
in worshipping 'Io at the "edge of Hale-ma'uma'u
Crater" it sounds like they have all been inviting
the old "gods" to return to Hawaii.

"They Will Believe The Lie"by Sandy SimpsonThis DVD is a message based on this article.

I am doing a Bible study right now on
what I would call "renewing our minds". It is
based on this verse:

Romans 12:2 Do not conform to the
pattern of this world, but be transformed by the
renewing of your mind. Then you will be able to
test and approve what God's will is - his good,
pleasing and perfect will.

The only way to renew our minds is to
believe on the Lord Jesus Christ, confess our sins,
and be saved, then to study the written Word and
allow the indwelling Holy Spirit to teach us.
Our minds are corrupted by virtue of the sin nature
and what we have learned in life because our filters
are off. I gave an illustration of straining coconut
to make coconut milk. If you use a 1 inch
screen everything will pass through. Even if
you use a quarter inch screen you will get mostly
coconut meat in your milk. You have to use a
fine screen in order to separate the milk from the
leftover. Our filters are off and the first
thing God begins to do is correct our worldview,
because if your worldview is off you will not
understand God's reality. We need to learn to
see things from His perspective. This is why I
started this study by going back to an original
problem.

2 Thessalonians 2:9-12 The coming
of the lawless one will be in accordance with how
Satan works. He will use all sorts of displays of
power through signs and wonders that serve the
lie, and all the ways that wickedness
deceives those who are perishing. They perish
because they refused to love the truth and so be
saved. For this reason God sends them a powerful
delusion so that they will believe the lie
and so that all will be condemned who have not
believed the truth but have delighted in
wickedness.

This has always been an interesting
passage to me for a few different reasons.
What is "the lie" that is talked about here in verse
9 and 11? What are the ways that "wickedness
deceives those who are perishing" and how long has
this been going on or does this only begin to happen
at the coming of the lawless one? In what way
does "the lie" cause those who do not believe the
truth to "delight in wickedness"?

The "Indigenous People's" (IPM) or
"First Nations" movement is an unbiblical movement
teaching heresies and doctrines of demons. It is
being spread worldwide by YWAM, Don Richardson, John
Dawson, Richard Twiss, Terry LeBlanc, Daniel Kikawa
and many other adherents. The IPM or World
Christian Gathering On Indigenous People is full of
the false teachings of the Third Wave, New Apostolic
Reformation (NAR), Word-Faith, Dominionism, Latter
Rain and many other false theological systems.
But it does have it's own distinctives that are
driven by the works of Daniel Kikawa, Richard Twiss,
and Don Richardson in particular. They are
teaching Christians to "redeem" their cultures by
worshipping their former gods, pretending they are
YHWH.

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There are a number of the
leadership of the Emerging Church (EC) who do not
believe that the Bible is the highest authority
for the Christian faith. Most do not believe
that the Bible is inerrant in the original
manuscripts and many do not acknowledge that the
Bible is our highest revelation. Yet this is
a core doctrine over which true believers and
false brethren must separate. Those who try to
poke holes in Sola Scriptura make excuses like (1)
we need to reinterpret the Bible through the lens
of postmodern culture and religion (2) the Bible
never uses the words "Sola Scriptura" therefore it
is not a Biblical concept (3) there is new
revelation for the church through the Holy Spirit
apart from what is written and the precepts of the
Bible and (4) the Bible just doesn't address our
postmodern situation therefore we cannot rely on
it for the truth and answers for our problems
today. I will prove that all the above
arguments, and more, from EC leaders and others is
exactly what they are teaching. I will give
you quotes from their teachings, videos and books.
The postmodern church and its "movements" are
abandoning Sola Scriptura in their rush to be like
the Roman Catholic Church, which takes its
authority from a mix of Scripture and tradition.

"As a result the Church, to whom
the transmission and interpretation of Revelation
is entrusted, "does not derive her certainty about
all revealed truths from the holy Scriptures
alone. Both Scripture and Tradition must be
accepted and honored with EQUAL sentiments of
devotion and reverence." (Roman Catholic
Catechism, Given October 11, 1992, the thirtieth
anniversary of the opening of the Second Vatican
Ecumenical Council, in the fourteenth year of my
Pontificate. Page 31).

Updated DVD!The Question Of Dominionby Sandy SimpsonThis DVD is a message based on this
article: The
Question Of Dominion.

I am writing this article as an
apologetic against the Third Wave, Latter Rain,
Word of Faith and Reformed Theology teachings that
the Church is to rise up and take over the systems
of government, businesses and every other aspect
of life. "See, the problem is, is that Satan has
had too much of his way in our society because he
has a government! And the only way to
overthrow a government is with a government.
It won't happen otherwise. So therefore the
government of the church has to get into place in
the extended church just like we do have it very
well in place, we haven't reached our goal yet
..." (Transcript of C. Peter Wagner, Arise
Prophetic Conference, Gateway Church, San Jose,
CA, 10-10-2004) Wagner has substituted the
"government of the church" for the coming
government of Jesus Christ in the Millennial
Kingdom. Wagner is "Kingdom Now" while the
Bible teaches "Kingdom Come". What I wanted to do
with this article is put the issue of dominion to
rest by studying the definition the Bible gives to
dominion and ruling authority. When we look
at the subject we can easily ascertain what is
going on today and what God requires of the
Church.

The Bible lays out the definitions
of both an overseer (under shepherd) and a
hireling. John 10:11-13 I am the good
shepherd: the good shepherd giveth his life for
the sheep. But he that is an hireling, and not the
shepherd, whose own the sheep are not, seeth the
wolf coming, and leaveth the sheep, and fleeth:
and the wolf catcheth them, and scattereth the
sheep. The hireling fleeth, because he is an
hireling, and careth not for the sheep.
(KJV) 1 Tim. 3:1-3 Here is a
trustworthy saying: If anyone sets his heart on
being an overseer, he desires a noble task. Now
the overseer must be above reproach, the husband
of but one wife, temperate, self-controlled,
respectable, hospitable, able to teach, not given
to drunkenness, not violent but gentle, not
quarrelsome, not a lover of money. (NIV)
Titus 1:7-13 Since an overseer is entrusted
with God's work, he must be blameless, not
overbearing, not quick-tempered, not given to
drunkenness, not violent, not pursuing dishonest
gain. Rather he must be hospitable, one who loves
what is good, who is self-controlled, upright,
holy and disciplined. He must hold firmly to the
trustworthy message as it has been taught, so that
he can encourage others by sound doctrine and
refute those who oppose it. For there are many
rebellious people, mere talkers and deceivers,
especially those of the circumcision group. They
must be silenced, because they are ruining whole
households by teaching things they ought not to
teach - and that for the sake of dishonest gain.
Even one of their own prophets has said, "Cretans
are always liars, evil brutes, lazy gluttons."
This testimony is true. Therefore, rebuke them
sharply, so that they will be sound in the faith.
(NIV) A hireling does not really care about being
a watchman, but is more concerned with protecting
his reputation, position and income. A true
watchman will guard the flock against wolves from
within (Acts 20:30) and without (Acts 20:29) no
matter the cost to his reputation, position or
income. Following is a little quiz you can take to
see if you are a true Biblical under shepherd as a
leader in your church, are becoming a hireling, or
are one now.

Too many churches today are
allowing music to be used in their services that
is not glorifying to the Lord and can actually be
a hindrance to the teaching of sound doctrine.
Pastors and leaders should be using their
leadership role to test what is being played and
sung in their churches. Though some are quick to
test preaching and teaching from their pulpits,
many ignore the music being used in the same
services. This is a tragic mistake. Music is a
powerful medium. It is something that effects
deeply the body, mind and emotions. It is a proven
fact that music often stays with a person far
longer than what is taught or preached. Songs roam
around in our heads, especially if the melody
appeals to us. What is often overlooked is the
serious impression music makes on people, and the
teaching they are getting over and over again as
they allow the song to repeat in their minds and
on their lips. Music teaches things much more
subtly yet sometimes far more effectively. That's
why the lyrical content of music in the church, as
well as its effect on the spiritual lives of those
who perform and listen, should be vigorously
examined by the leaders of the church. This
is a 2-DVD set.

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2 Cor. 13:5 Examine
yourselves to see whether you are in the faith;
test yourselves.Do you not realise that Christ
Jesus is in you - unless, of course, you fail the
test?

People who call themselves followers
of Christ or "Christians" and claim they are born
again must believe certain things. If they do
not then they fail the test of faith. They can
claim they are born again all they want and "once
saved, always saved" but if they fail the test of
faith there is no eternal security. Only God
knows who will be saved, from beginning to end,
because of His foreknowledge and omniscience (Rom.
8:29, 1 Pet. 1:2). God did not make an
arbitrary judgment about who would be saved and who
would not. His Spirit is given to those He
foreknew, when convicted of sin by His Holy Spirit,
would choose to believe and commit themselves to
Jesus Christ. We are not God and we do not
have His omniscience. Therefore, according to
Paul, we must be sure our belief system is in the
right place once our eyes have been opened to the
Truth. I am not saying we do not have
assurance of salvation, but our assurance comes not
only because of His Atonement and promises of
salvation but from our continuing in the Faith,
which is always the Biblical criteria. Those who
would be Bible teachers must teach according to the
whole counsel of God's Word. Let me be clear.
There is only one way to salvation.
That is by grace alone through faith alone in Christ
alone. I will deal with a few of those issues
following, but it is important to recognize that
being saved is not just a matter of believing that
Jesus lived, or that He was a man, or simply giving
mental ascent to His existence in whatever form.

"Blasphemizing" The Bibleby Sandy
SimpsonThis DVD is a message based on this article.

I am going to go over an article I
wrote back in 2006 in preparation for the book I
wrote with Mike Oppenheimer called 'Idolatry in
Their Hearts'. This book is an apologetic
against the false teachings of the World Christian
Gathering on Indigenous People movement, the
Emerging Church and the New Apostolic Reformation
which got their ideas from the book "Eternity in
Their Hearts" by Don Richardson. At the time
that book came out no one really saw the dangerous
ideas Richardson was promoting. All they would
have had to do was look at the two subtitles of that
book to understand the implications. The first
subtitle in the 1981 edition read: The Untold Story
of Christianity among Folk Religions of Ancient
People. Those who read this book found some
interesting cross-cultural ideas but apparently
missed the false premise of the book starting with
the subtitle. How could Christianity be "among folk
religions" where the Gospel had not been preached
(Rom. 10:14-15)? At that time Christians who read
the book were apparently satisfied that, though
there was some questionable material present, it
made for an interesting discussion on how to do
cross-cultural ministry. The subtitle it has today,
which was first published in 1984, is as follows:
Startling Evidence of Belief in the One True God in
Hundreds of Cultures Throughout the World.
This should have been a red flag for many Christians
but then, who reads subtitles? But how could
the "One True God" be known to Gentiles who did "not
know God".

Resources For Pastorsincluding"Good English Bible
Translations"by Sandy
SimpsonThis DVD is a message based on this article.

I was talking with a pastor after a
Wednesday night service and he mentioned that I said
I had done an article comparing English Bible
translations. He called me up later and asked
me to come back and present the contents of that
article I sent out in about 2002 to my mailing list
for the Pacific Waves Newsletter which,
unfortunately, I can no longer afford to publish and
mail. However an archive of past issues of
that newsletter can be found here.
In that article I detailed a number of good and bad
resources for pastors including Bible translations,
concordances, commentaries, Bible dictionaries,
etc. I present an edited version of part of
that article on this DVD, particularly dealing with
English Translations of the Bible. Translation
is a very detailed endeavor and should only be
undertaken by those with a proper education in that
subject and a sound doctrinal background. I
read a few books on that subject and it helped me
understand the complexities involved. Hebrew
is a rich language so it is hard to distill one
Hebrew word down to one English word. Greek is
a very technical language and it is also not easy to
translate. This is why it is imperative to use
the good English translations out there for
comparison along with a good concordance and Bible
dictionary.

A TALE OF TWO KINGDOMSKingdom Now or Kingdom
Come?by Sandy
SimpsonThis DVD is a message based on this article.

There are two kingdoms being taught
in many churches today. Teaching about one of the
kingdoms is on the decline while the other is being
promoted all over the place. I am warning
Christians that they need to check out who is using
the word "kingdom", the books they have been reading
and recommend on building "the kingdom", the people
they have been hanging out with at conferences, and
what they mean by "the kingdom".

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below. The price is $18. per book plus s/h.

BIBLES STUDIES IN
DISCERNMENTCompanion
CD!by Sandy
SimpsonContains the PDF text to the book
BIBLE STUDIES IN DISCERNMENT plus extra studies by
Sandy & Juanita Simpson covering many issues of
apologetics and discernment.

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below. The price is $10. per cd plus s/h.

A Whole Lot Of Wishful
Thinking These Days!by Sandy
SimpsonThis DVD series is a teaching based on
this article.

In this DVD series I want to
detail a number of beliefs people have these days
that have no basis in Scripture. I am going
to roam all over the map, so to speak, and try to
give fairly short answers on a number of topics
and also give you useful links to articles that
will help you deal with any particular
issue. It is truly amazing how many false
ideas people cling to without giving a thought to
what the Bible has to say on the subject.

Signs Of Apostasy In The
Churches In The End Timesby Sandy
SimpsonThis 2-DVD series is a teaching based
on this article.

There are many signs of the great
Apostasy, or falling away (2 Thes. 2:3) indicating
we are living in the end times (Mt. 24:
3-14) I am going to go through some
indications of the Apostasy in the churches as a
follow up to the signs of the times in the world.

Emerging Church CD &
Free DVDAll the
links to resources and articles we have on the
Emerging Church on one CD.by Sandy
Simpson
(The Emerging Church only is
downloadable!)When you
purchase the "Resource Tools - Emerging Church" CD
for $10. plus s/h you will also receive a
brand new free DVD called "The Emerging Church"
that features Gary Gilley, Ray Yungen, Joanna
Michaelson, Mike Oppenheimer and Sandy Simpson.

From Church To Emerging
Church DVD Seriesby Sandy
SimpsonThe issue of the Emerging Church and
it's introduction into many churches and mission
organizations has reached a critical point.
Many do not undersand what is being leavened into
churches by the EC leadership. Many would be
shocked to know their belief systems involve
Universalism, New Age, defense of postmodernism,
Interfaithism, and many other false doctrines.
In order to reach out to this generation the EC
leadership is proposing a whole new "map" to deal
with what they perceive is a lack of understanding
on the part of the churches on how to
communicate. EC proponants believe the
"scripture" for today is evolving and must change in
order to reach postmoderns.

Idolatry In Their HeartsLandmark
Book!by Sandy
Simpson & Mike OppenheimerDoes having eternity in your heart
mean that you know God and are His child? Could
Gentile cultures understand the Gospel from the
stars? Did God create man's cultures? Has God always
been in the process of redeeming cultures from the
time of Babel by placing in them a true revelation
of Himself? Is there the worship of YHWH in all
cultures and religions through the names of supreme
beings? Have all cultures always had a way to
make things right between them and God? These
questions and many more are answered in this book
that addresses the false teachings of The New
Apostolic Reformation regarding missiological
methods as being carried out by many agencies
including the World Christian Gathering on
Indigenous People, YWAM, and many Bible societies.

Lessons In ForgivenessGreat Study!by Sandy
SimpsonThrough the
years I have been presented with many
opportunities to forgive. Sometimes the
situation was so severe that it took me some
time to forgive and start the process of healing
for myself, and eventually for others. I learned
that a Christian needs to forgive other people
even if they have not repented of their sins.
That can be really hard if we let it be hard.
But if we give our burdens over to the Lord, He
will carry them and that frees us up to treat
other people with love, compassion, and be in
the right frame of mind and heart to set them up
for reconciliation with Jesus Christ. That does
not mean we tolerate their sin. We simply
forgive them for what they have done to us,
whether perceived or real, and move on to
looking for ways to redeem them. We can then
present to them the "truth in love" even when we
have to rebuke them.

Finish The Race!Go On To Maturity!by Sandy
Simpsonwas written
to help believers to realize the absolute
necessity of growing to maturity in Christ. Many
churches are urging Christians to push aside
discernment in favor of experience. It is our
hope that this book will inspire many believers
to fight the good fight, finish the race, and
keep the faith (2 Tim. 4:7).

The New Apostolic
Reformation - What is it and where is it going?Companion Book!by Sandy
Simpsonis now available in book form. This
is the DVD script plus commentary by Sandy
Simpson. The commentary of the DVD series is not
in the book, but there are many more quotes
available than in the video series. Good
reference material. Also available on
CD-ROM.

Letters To The ChurchTimely!by Sandy
Simpsonis a fitting manual for the
Revelation Christian. All the precepts are in the
seven letters in Revelation 1:9 - 3:22 to help us
keep the faith, stay in sound doctrine, and reach
out to those who are perishing. I hope and pray
that this book will help
the reader to be an "overcomer".

DISCERNMENT TOOLKITDemolish Arguments!by Sandy
SimpsonWant to be able to see your way
through to clear biblical discernment? Want a set
of tools that will allow you to disciple your
loved ones so they will stand firm in the Faith?
Want to sort out many of the false arguments and
teachings that have invaded the churches? Then DISCERNMENT TOOLKIT book is for you!

DISCERNMENT TOOLKITDVD Study Series!by Sandy
Simpsonis taken from the book but includes
a lot of footage of false teachers and false
prophets. It covers the core doctrines, how we can
use them to test, and examples on the DVD that can
be paused for discussion. Also includes a
teacher guide and links to resources on the
web. This 3-DVD series is available now!

SPIRIT OF TRUTH OR SPIRIT
OF ERROR?Important Video
InformationOn Benny Hinn!by Sandy
Simpson, Mike Oppenheimer & Jacob Praschfeatures tons of
video showing the teachings and prophecies of
Benny Hinn. This is a proven tool to keep
people away from heresy.

THE EMPTY PULPITHighly Recommended!by Mike
OppenheimerWhat is Christianity? What
significance does the cross have? Are there
teachings that can wreck our faith? We live in an
age unlike any other in the history of man. To
follow the Lord among the unique challenges we
must understand Scripture and live by it.
Available for $20- includes shipping.
Apologetics Coordination Team HIGHLY recommends this
book. It deals with many crucial issues for
the Church today.

Go here
to order the book by Mike Oppenheimer, Let Us Reason
Ministries, P.O. Box 860683, Wahiawa, HI 96786.

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REVIEWS. The review list includes books,
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Part
1 - Don Richardson's paradigm, God
embedded in the worlds cultures Part
2 - The neglect of Israel in the new
paradigm of evangelization Part
3 - The Melchizedek priest King
factor Part
4 - A lost book? Part
5 - The Myth making of Don Richardson -
transforming myths into history Part
6 - The Santal - the Thakur Jui
myth
Part 7 - The Karen prophets and the god
yuah

Eternity
In
Their Hearts by Don Richardson - Reviewed by
Sandy Simpson & Mike Oppenheimer Eternity
In Their Hearts by Don Richardson - Reviewed
by Mike Oppenheimer - Read Part 1
- Don Richardson's paradigm, God embedded in the worlds
cultures, Part
2 - The neglect of Israel in the new paradigm of
evangelization, Part 3
- The Melchizedek priest King factor, Part 4 -
A lost book? , Part 5
- The Myth making of Don Richardson - transforming myths
into history, Part 6 - The Santal - the Thakur Jui
myth

What "impact" has The Passion movie had on Christians
and society? Check this article called Impact of the Passion
from Think On These Things newsletter detailing a survey
by George Barna, who is a participant in the New
Aposotlic Reformation.

This article is about the use of
invective while attempting to do apologetics or
teaching discernment. Invective is defined
as a noun: insulting, abusive, or highly critical
language ie. "he let out a stream of
invective". I admit to using invective at
times in the past. My goal is to stop that
practice and focus on the facts, not attack an
individual’s ability to comprehend.

In the case of Christians, the
first thing to consider when doing apologetics is
our mandate to reconcile people to Christ, no
matter who they are.

2 Cor. 5:18-21 Now all these
things are from God, who reconciled us to
Himself through Christ and gave us the ministry
of reconciliation, namely, that God was in
Christ reconciling the world to Himself, not
counting their trespasses against them, and He
has committed to us the word of reconciliation.
Therefore, we are ambassadors for Christ, as
though God were making an appeal through us; we
beg you on behalf of Christ, be reconciled to
God. He made Him who knew no sin to be sin on
our behalf so that we might become the
righteousness of God in Him.

I have some questions for those of the World
Christian Gathering of Indigenous People (WCGIP)
adherents such as Don Richardson, Daniel Kikawa, Richard Twiss (deceased), Terry
LeBlanc, Danny Lehman, Aloha KeAkua,
YWAM as well as many in the Emergent Church (EC)
... the questions arise from their claim that the
"supreme beings" of the nations are all the True
God, YHWH, the God of Abraham, Isaac and
Jacob. You can read more on this subject in
our book "Idolatry In Their Hearts" or
in the WCGIP
section of my site.

My main
question for them is this: When did ANY of the
Patriarchs and Prophets in the Old Testament and
the Apostles or Jesus Christ in the New Testament
EVER claim that the "supreme beings" of the
nations were Elohim/YHWH,
the one True God? Let's look at some
examples in the form of questions and you can
check out the source links as well.

10
Questions is available is now
available in booklet format. You can order
here or at Lighthouse Trails here.
$1.95
per copy, bulk orders get a discount.

Acts 3:19 Therefore repent
and return, so that your sins may be wiped
away, in order that times of refreshing
may come from the presence of the Lord;

There has been so much hype of
"revival" in our modern day that it is easy to
forget the true biblical criteria and definition
of revival. Revival cannot be brought about by
signs and wonders or "laying" on of hands to
transfer apostolic or prophetic "anointings". In
fact there is no such thing in the Bible.The
Biblical criterion for revival has, as a
precondition, repentance. The word "refreshing" is
also defined as "revive".

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